Imagine being able to "print" a new motherboard for your laptop or a newer and faster video card. Imagine downloading the schematics and plans for an mp3 player and literally printing the parts before putting them together.

THE GATE reports that 10 percent of the touch-screen machines in California don't produce paper printouts. And no printouts, experts say, would make a legitimate recount impossible.

In addition, according to a July study by Johns Hopkins and Rice universities, any clever hacker could break into the touch screen machines thereby wiping out legitmate votes or vote multiple times themselves. Researchers found it was theoretically possible to insert "back doors" into software code that would allow hackers -- or insiders -- to change future voters' choices and determine the outcome.

With the mess that was the 2000 Florida Election, and the Rumors that in Chicago people who have been dead for years are still having their voices heard at the ballot box, is this kind of shinanegan beyond the scope of what could happen in the near future?